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Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Idolaters Can Never Be More Rightly Guided Than Believers

LESSON
# 513 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

Idolaters Can Never Be More Rightly Guided Than Believers

Surah Nisaaa’ (Women)
- Chapter - 4)

Verses
–51 & 52 of 176, Section – 8/24 (Part – 5)

51. Hast
thou not seen those unto whom a portion of the Scripture hath been given, how
they believe in idols and false deities, and how they say of those
(idolaters) who disbelieve: These are more rightly guided than those who
believe”?

52. Those
are they whom Allah hath cursed, thou (O’ Muhammad) will find for him no
helper.

Taaguuti – (False deities,
disobedient, rebellion, refractory, encroacher, the person, who oversteps the
bounds), the words tagaa, tugyaan, taagi and taaguut have been
derived from the same origin, which means ‘to exceed one’s power, to disobey. Overflowing
of the river is named as tugyaani, probably for the reason
that the water of the river oversteps from its bounds (banks). The commentators
of Holy Qur’an infer the Satan (Devil) at some places as taaguut because he passed
beyond his limits.

The children of Israel were
the People of the Scripture. The Commandments of Allah Almighty had reached
them through Prophet Moses and the Prophets and Messengers came after Him (peace
be upon them). They had Torah, in which the glad tiding regarding the last
Messenger Muhammad (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon him) did exist. But
when they observed that the prophet-hood would be delivered to the children of
Ishmael from their dynasty, and a Prophet (grace, glory, blessings and peace be
upon him) has born in the illiterate people of Mecca, at that time, a
fire of jealousy irritated into them. They got ready for enmity, tried to
humiliate the Muslims in every respect and at last sharpened their adversity by
adhering with the Meccan idolaters. Notwithstanding
being the people of the Scripture, knowing about the Unity of Allah Almighty
and the Truth of His last Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon
him), they said to the idolaters only for their pleasure, even up to that their
(idolaters’) religion was better than the religion of Muslims (Islam).

Allah Almighty commands that
the people, who recommended the religion of infidelity as better and prominent
than Islam only for the purpose of their psychological desires, they are the
people, whom Allah Almighty has cursed. Moreover, it is clear that nobody can
be helper and protector of that person, to whom Allah Almighty has cursed.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islaah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).